Good to hear Victoria Atkins on Laura Kuenssberg show commit to a new Prevention Strategy in the coming weeks. It’s now important that Department of Health and Social Care works with sport & physical activity sector leaders to ensure physical activity interventions are at the heart of this new plan #BBCLauraK

“A healthy economy is only possible with a healthy workforce.” Positive words from ⁦Helen Whately⁩ & a real opportunity for Govt to finally utilise the full potential of ⁦ukactive⁩ members and take existing programmes and services to scale.
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In this blog, ukactive CEO Huw Edwards discusses next month’s Fit for Office challenge run in partnership with Myzone and why MPs are signing up and getting involved.

To read the blog and find out more about #FitforOffice , click here: ukactive.com/blog/fit-for-o…

How FIT are our politicians?! 🤸🏾

ukactive is launching its ‘Fit For Office’ challenge for MPs, peers & their offices. Participants will get a MyZone-Switch heart rate monitor to measure their physical activity effort across March.

Who’s up for it?!

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FIT FOR OFFICE! Honoured to be invited to Parliament to deliver group consultations and one to one health checks with MPs In a month-long health challenge during March, as Parliament gears up for a General Election! #MedTwitter #health #movement

Thank you to everyone who joined us on 1 February at QEII Centre in Westminster, to unite as a sector and better understand how we can grow and develop our sector and improve the health of the nation.

Recap on the day here:

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'I'm today calling on our party leaders, as a matter of urgency, to deploy the physical activity sector to help save the NHS and turbocharge the economy'

ukactive Chair, Mike Farrar's message to Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer at #ActiveUprising

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Both ⁦Rishi Sunak⁩ ⁦Jeremy Hunt⁩ need to deploy ⁦ukactive⁩ members to help workplace health by fully integrating gyms/leisure centres with NHS (MSK Hubs expansion) VAT/Biz rate reform, & expand cycle2work to include gyms/home equipment theguardian.com/society/2024/j…

Our partnership with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust is helping thousands of patients to access physiotherapy at gyms and leisure centres in their local community.
The story features in today’s Times and you can find out more in the thread 👇 Guy's and St Thomas'

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'We believe all children and young people should be empowered and encouraged to develop active and healthy lifestyles at an early age...' the response from our CEO Ali Oliver to ukactive research released today.

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Did you know, over half of Brits go to the gym to manage a health condition? 78% said it also improves their mental health.Our research is covered by the The Guardian today, with views from Huw Edwards, NHS England's Matthew Fagg and Centre for Mental Health's Andy Bell
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ukactive has today announced the launch of Sustainable Futures, a programme designed to support the physical activity sector’s transition to net zero.

Click below to learn more 👇

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As the industry bodies across sport & physical activity argued last week, growth depends on health & improving the operating conditions for this sector will help our national health, boost productivity, and support growth ukactive.com/news/growth-de…

“Spending on working-age health & disability benefits is heading to £71bn by 2028-29, a 51% increase from today. We can’t get younger but, if we want lower taxes, we should get serious about becoming healthier.” 💯 ⁦Torsten Bell⁩ ⁦⁦⁦ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This is something the new Govt Taskforce on Physical Activity co-chaired by ⁦Lucy Frazer⁩ ⁦Ugo Monye⁩ can engage & influence. Huge opportunity to connect physical activity sector with high street renewal as anchor services #CPC2023 news.sky.com/story/rishi-su…